Robert Blum

Founding President of the Foundation's Board of Trustees (1954-1962)

>>Founding President of the Asia Foundation

>Dr. Robert Blum, the Foundation’s first president (1954-1962), was a specialist in Asian affairs and former international relations instructor at Yale University.

<A veteran diplomat, Dr. Blum was assistant to Secretary of Defense James Forrestal; chief of the U.S. Special Technical and Economic Mission to Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam; and assistant deputy for economic affairs to President Eisenhower’s special representative for the Mutual Security Administration in Europe.

>During World War II, he was awarded the French Legion of Honor and Croix de Guerre and the United States Medal for Freedom. <Dr. Blum was educated at the University of California and the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva.

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